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Scattergood Friends
School Committee Approved Minutes July 15, 2000 The School Committee met on Saturday, July 15th at the Radisson Hotel in Iowa City. The
meeting started with an executive session at 9:00 am. Minute from executive session: The Director will be evaluated on the following four areas in addition to his job description:
The
business meeting opened with a moment of silence at 10:20 am.
Members present included Joe Davison, Barb Garlinghouse, Lucy Hansen,
Richard Johnson, Burt Kisling, Jeff Kisling, Ron Knight, Anita Richards, , Dan
Treadway, George Welch and Lowell Wilson. Staff
members present included Margie Figgins and Ken Hinshaw. Donnie
Morehouse and Bruce Rohwer sent their regrets. Visitor Jim Kasper joined us to
observe the meeting. The
minutes from the May 13th, 2000
meeting were accepted with corrections. Director’s
Report
– Ken read the Director’s Report. From
that report followed a discussion on the worth of living on campus and the
housing subsidy amount that is paid to off-campus staff.
The Personnel Committee was asked to report at the next meeting with
monetary figures on the value of on-campus living. Consultation
& Nominating Committee – Based on the Consultation Committee’s recommendations, the
following minutes were approved. The
School Committee has approved the addition of the housing subsidy to the base
salary in calculating the TIAA-CREF retirement determination for off-campus,
full time staff, retroactive for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2000. The School Committee approved to send a letter to the Farm Service Agency (FSA) authorizing the Business Manager and the Farm Manager as authorized signers for FSA business. The School Committee approved the Director borrowing $150,000 at 8.75% interest for financing the laptop computer program. The
School Committee approved a minute that the clerk of the School Committee and
the clerk of the Consultation Committee will write an official letter to the
appropriate financial institution whenever a loan is approved, or the names of
signers change. The
School Committee approved the proposed budget.
Final
updated numbers will be presented at the next meeting when final tuition dollars
are known. George
presented an update on nominations for next year. Janet Lemmerman and Ted Welch have asked to be relieved of
their School Committee duties. Nominees
to fill in these two spaces include Jim Kenney from the Penn Valley Monthly
Meeting, Perry-O Sliwa from the Decorah Monthly Meeting and Dr. Bob Winchell
from the Des Moines Valley Monthly Meeting. The School Committee approved
this list of nominees to present to Iowa Yearly Meeting.
If any of the current members wish to make changes to or have other
suggestions regarding the subcommittee appointments, please notify a member of
the Consultation Committee. Lucy
Hansen has been asked and has agreed to become the next clerk of the School
Committee. Clerk terms in the past
have gone through the September meeting. The
School Committee approved the appointment of Lucy Hansen as the next Clerk of
the Scattergood Friends School Committee. Academic
Report
– Anita presented a verbal report including proposed changes to the LRP.
Curriculum Coordinator Jennie Schmidt will be staff representative to the
academic committee. Jeff
presented the written Development Self Evaluation and a Technology
Update. There followed a
discussion on involving kids before the high school years. Several good ideas were raised and merit further discussion
at later dates. Farm
Committee –
Lucy Hansen presented the Farm Committee’s self-evaluation. Ken presented a list of the full time staff and their job
titles current at this time. The
proposed dates for next year’s School Committee meetings were presented.
The School Committee approved the following meeting dates for the
upcoming year: September 30, 2000; December 9, 2000; February 3, 2001; March 31,
2001; May 12, 2001; and July 14, 2001. Ken read the first draft of the School Committee Report to the Iowa Yearly Meeting. Suggestions were made for corrections and additions. An updated version will be e-mailed to committee members for final comments. LRP Goals – As we look towards the next year and think about some goals, these ideas were presented. Nancy Ryan’s goals include focusing on grant writing and fleshing out the development chapter of the LRP. Burt’s goals include visiting other meetings and identifying ‘influentials’, those people who can help host and arrange visits with Nancy Ryan and open houses near area Monthly Meetings. Other ideas raised include getting a full version of the LRP on the web and getting better at making updates, hosting another major Scattergood reunion, developing youth activities during the summer months, and pursuing the idea of ‘Pendle Hill West’. Ken presented the following eight items that need work in the upcoming year. 1. Outreach/marketing associated with admissions 2. Scattergood’s website 3. Getting more people to visit Scattergood - school kids, reunions, Friends-In-Residence, consultants, etc. 4. Getting Scattergood out - community service, seminars, drama, etc. 5. Projects/Grant Writing – auditorium, art building, Meeting House, prairie 6. Nurturing the expanding curriculum, ensure success of our changes 7. Databases of the school – giving patterns, building alumni connectedness, recruiting school aged kids, etc while maintaining confidentiality and safety of our data There was also a
discussion on using electronic communication more often for regular School
Committee correspondence. It is the
hope of the Recording Clerk that e-mailings can replace the current postal
mailings. We will try this and
discuss at the next meeting how it went. The
Technology Committee will also make a report on other options we have for mass
communications. There was a reminder that Friday, July 28th
will be the Scattergood reports to the Iowa Yearly Meeting.
School Committee members are encouraged to attend as much of these school
meetings as possible. After brief feedback on how today’s meeting went, the
Scattergood Friends School Committee closed with a moment of silence. Respectfully submitted, Margie Figgins Recording Clerk |